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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Day 7 - Homeward Bound

New Orleans - Easter Sunday and DH’s birthday so we started
with a must-do in New Orleans, coffee and beignets with a bowl of fruit at Huck
Finn’s on Decatur.

We headed to the water front

and then we stood across the street from the cathedral and enjoyed the fine weather and people watching. A trio of three guys were warming up to do a show. Known as the Calypso Tumblers they put on a great show totally engaging the audience.

You can watch a long version of their show on this video I found on Youtube.

While this was going on you could also watch the horse and carriages, the taxis arriving with the passengers in their Sunday best for church, the characters and the Easter bonnets.

We went looking for some coffee mugs and then stopped into
the Crescent City Brewery for a lunch of Louisiana meat pies and mashed
potatoes.

We took out stuff back to the hotel and there was a severe
thunderstorm warning,

It was also affecting the golf tournament in Houston.

We sat out the storm and headed out around 8:30. It was much quieter on Bourbon
than the night before. Since we weren't that hungry we strolled back to the
bistro Grapevines and had a duck salad and DH had enormous shrimp in the best
gravy ever.